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Leisure, Health, and Wellness: Making the Connections
Leisure Health and Wellness Making the Connections Author:Laura Payne, Barbara Ainsworth, Geoffrey Godbey As understanding of good health changes, it is apparent that leisure and its use are — an important issue in both achieving and maintaining good health. This book reflects the story of how parks, recreation, and leisure studies contribute to health and well-being of individuals, families, communities, and societies. This is also the story of how ... more »public health contributes to parks, recreation, and leisure studies - the intersections and connections between and among these fields, concepts, and professional practices.
This book provides a collection of ideas brought together by scholars and practitioners willing to venture outside of the safe confines of their own disciplines to write trans-disciplinary chapters with colleagues from numerous fields related to leisure, health, and wellness and their interconnections.
C O N T E N T S
SECTION ONE - Overview
SECTION TWO - Leisure and the Dimensions of Wellness
SECTION THREE - Leisure and Personal Health
SECTION FOUR - Leisure and Health in Population Groups
SECTION FIVE - Health and Forms of Leisure Expression
SECTION SIX - Strategies for Healthy Leisure« less